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"Ah, well of course we all felt that at the time. And now somebody else wants to marry you! And it's your trousseau you were choosing that cloak for?" Ellie cried in incredulous rapture; then she flung her arms about Susy's shrinking shoulders. "You lucky lucky girl! You clever clever darling! But who on earth can he be?"
"You are thinking that it is hardly possible?" said John with a smile. "I suppose it is possible," said Ellen "but" "But lovely as this world is, Ellie, man has filled it with sin, and sin has everywhere brought its punishment, and under the weight of both the earth groans.
"Ellie, dear you must love Him with all your heart, and live constantly in his presence. I know if you do, he will make you happy, in any event. He can always give more than he takes away. Oh, how good he is! and what wretched returns we make him! I was miserable when John first went away to Doncaster; I did not know how to bear it.
"We have but just come, Ellie," said her sister. "I should not have been long in finding you out. My child, how thin you have got." "Oh, I'll grow fat again now," said Ellen. "How is Miss Fortune?" "Oh, she is up again and well." "Have you any reason to expect your father home, Ellen?" said Mrs. Chauncey. "Yes, Ma'am; aunt Fortune says perhaps he will be here in a week."
"If he should happen to drop in unexpectedly it will give Ellie the shock of her life," she mused; and the telegram was smuggled into the hands of the porter to be sent as occasion offered. Those who knew Mr.
Come here and sit in my lap again." "I am afraid you cannot bear it." "Yes, I can. Sit here, and let your head rest where it used to;" and Alice laid her cheek upon Ellen's forehead; "you are a great comfort to me, dear Ellie." "Oh, Alice, don't say so you'll kill me!" exclaimed Ellen, in great distress. "Why should I not say so, love?" said Alice, soothingly.
"Children in the water, you strange little duck?" said the professor. "Yes," said Ellie. "I know there used to be children in the water, and mermaids too, and mermen. It hangs on the great staircase, and I have looked at it ever since I was a baby, and dreamt about it a hundred times; and it is so beautiful that it must be true."
Then he found that her feet and her hands were as strong against his as bands and stakes of iron. Then began a wrestling match in earnest between Thor and the ancient crone Ellie. Round and round the hall they wrestled, and Thor was not able to bend the old woman backward nor sideways. Instead he became less and less able under her terrible grasp.
"I don't see anything in particular," said Ellen, after taking a grave look out. "Well, what in general?" "Why, there is the lawn covered with snow, and the trees and bushes; and the sun is shining on everything, just as it did the day we came; and there's the long shadow of that hemlock across the snow, and the blue sky." "Now look out again, Ellie, and listen.
For the girls had spent a day or two with their cousins in the course of the move. "Yes," broke in Barbara, "and she won't let Essie and Ellie teach their dolls their lessons! She was quite cross when I was showing them how, and said it was all nonsense when I told her I heard you say that I half taught myself by teaching Juliet.
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